Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tweeted that ten states had filed lawsuits against Coinbase's pledge service at the beginning of the year, and only five states are still litigating. Maryland is one of the few states to ban Coinbase outright. Maryland residents lost about $8 million in rewards, and the losses are mounting.
Sensitive data stolen in a cyber security incident at the Maryland Department of Transportation is being auctioned off by the Rhysida ransomware gang for 30 bitcoins (about $3.40 million). According to auction information collected by Dark Web Daily, the hacker group is suspected of stealing sensitive personal data and information, including Social Security numbers, addresses, dates of birth, and other identifying information. It is said that the data will be sold to only a single buyer within t...
21:00-7:00 Keywords: Maryland, OpenAI, non-farm payrolls, BlackRock Ethereum ETF 1. The state of Maryland plans to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve. 2. Trump plans to announce reciprocal tariffs as early as Friday. 3. SoftBank is currently set to invest $40 billion in OpenAI; 4. U.S. non-farm payrolls rose by 143,000 in January, lower than expected; 5. Interest rate futures traders expect the Federal Reserve to make its next rate cut in May. 6. The SEC postponed the decision on BlackRock's ...
Former FTX executive Ryan Salame has begun serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence in a Maryland prison. Salame, who previously served as co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, was being held at FCI Cumberland, Md., as of Saturday morning, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. The prison is a "medium-security federal correctional facility with a minimum-security satellite camp next to it." It holds more than 1,000 inmates, according to the prison website.
According to the Associated Press, US President Joe Biden and former US President Donald Trump have won the Maryland Democratic and Republican presidential primaries, respectively.